Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Interim

Interim , noun

[Latin, from inter between + im, an old accusative of is he, this, that.]

1.
The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc.
All the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream. — Shakespeare
2.
(Hist.) A name given to each of three compromises made by the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and Catholics.